Search within Ourself

I was reading Bhagavad Gita on the other day. I lost myself in the imagination of the scene in which Krishna was teaching Arjuna. We would in fact say that Krishna revealed the truth to Arjuna rather than saying, gave a sermon, or taught some principles of life.


Ocean like people stood around in arrays, matrix and in various other formations in front of important commanders, carrying different weapons. They have come to the war with a single wish, only to lay down their lives for their King.

If Arjuna had started killing his enemies immediately after the start of the Great War, then there would have been no necessity for Krishna to tell Arjuna to fight. Also if, Arjuna had not told Krishna to stop his chariot between the two armies, he would not have felt the emotions of killing his own brothers and relatives.

If, of all the Pandavas, Dharma had felt this kind of emotions Krishna would not have the chance to reveal the truth to Dharma since he had been with Arjuna and Dharma might have laid down the arms or would have surrendered to Dhuryodana. Why not Bheema, Nakhula or Sahadeva? Why this scene was created? Is this not quite intriguing?

It is also quite interesting that it was not Krishna who wanted to reveal the truth to Arjuna on his own. The scene had been already written. On his own volition Arjuna asks Krishna to stop the chariot in between the two armies. That was the starting point. Krishna already knows this. He just made the right situation to Arjuna to receive the revelation. Arjuna was in the right stature to receive it. A confused state of mind is all that required for the Omnipresent to give the eternal joy of revelation. Just the last push was needed.

Having read and imagined like this, I too felt the need for such All Knowledgeable Master near me. I am in such a kind of confused state of mind. I know few things and do not know a lot of things. Conflicting thoughts runs in mind for ever. A good thing now becomes a bad thing the next moment and vice versa. Constantly tossed over between times, past, present and future the mind becomes tired and the self is lost in slumber. How easy it would have been to cross this mind which constantly thrives because of the senses, if there had been such a master like Krishna. The world seen through the mind seems to me always as real, in sleep, during sleep and after the sleep in the waking state. I am consoling my aged mother. I am talking with my dearest friend a number of things that happened during the day, yester year and the future plans. And all the seers have told that the world is illusion. If at all there is a state of self where there is no mind will that person will be sane in this world? Will he be considered as a person at all? When I know that the world is illusion then will there be any actions for me? For how much time I will know that the world is illusion? Will I return back to my old thought pattern about the world even after knowing that the world is an illusion?


What Arjuna did after receiving the great revelation? He fought the war. He killed during the course of the war all the enemies who were his relatives, friends, gurus and brothers. I have read he felt too sorrowful when he laid Bheeshma on the bed of arrows. He challenged as an ordinary person would, to kill Jarasandha who had killed Arjuna’s son Abhimanyu. He felt the sadness too when he heard the news about the killing of his son Abhimanyu. At the time of happening of the events he had acted as if like an ordinary man who had not obtained the great revelation. He had seen the vishwaroopa of Krishna, the all transcending form of the energy. It has been told he saw Krishna being killed by a hunter within Krishna. He would not have felt sorrow for having seen Krishna killed by the hunter within Krishna. At some moment Arjuna too was seen within Krishna. Krishna and Arjuna has become one. He was overwhelmed by seeing the all transcending form of energy. He should have been with that energy for a fraction of seconds only. It has been told he could not withstand that for a very long time. Krishna told Arjuna that this form of all transcending energy could not be seen through the outward senses, the eyes, the ears, the sensation, the taste and the smell. Arjuna had been bestowed with intrinsic eyes to see this form of energy. Intrinsic eyes would not have used the mind. So definitely as a Guru, as a friend, as an all compassionate person Krishna in the midst of battle field, for the confused Arjuna had shown the revelation of his all encompassing energy.


I am a person who sees this world through the mind and the world known to me is only through my mind. The friend of mine is all the expressions and experiences of my mind. We would have talked together, but the expressions and experiences would have never been similar. Even a sannyasin who has been given a new name and new look will have to look through his mind to recognize his friends and relatives. He may well know how to turn on and off the mind at his will.

Arjuna too would have for a moment been in tune with a no-mind state; and for all practical purpose of life he had to use his mind to carry on his life. Otherwise he would not have been grieved for the death of his beloved son. Like Dhronacharia who laid down all his arms and weapons amidst the battle even at the news of the death of his son, Arjuna too at the death of his son tried to immolate himself. Again, Krishna came to the rescue and made him remember the no-mind state and made him carry on the war afterwards.

When I close all my external senses, passively an observation is taking place within and I hear my own voice speaking to me in the languages known to me and when this voice has stopped talking, only an observer is there. The external senses pull this observer towards the world. Even a small mosquito bite is leading to lots of action within the body involuntarily. We never observe these involuntary actions that are taken by the body. But the thought of mosquito bite takes us to a chain of thoughts and all the emotions and expressions attached to the world as seen by me, and here and now my external self is projected. I know that there is a silent observer within me and when this observer is the self there is no projection. This is like an object without a shadow. Shadow is always an illusion and the object is only real. The shadow of myself bangs into a wall, a tree and runs through by a vehicle. The shadow becomes big and small. But if I think that I am that shadow how much sufferings I would be going through.

We may know that we are the observer but if this fact is self-attained then it will definitely come and go. It is an undoubted fact that everybody needs a guide in this spiritual path of attaining blissful happiness for ever. We need not worry when he will come or when we will attain that state. We tell our intensions and carry out our actions, at the right time, right place and at the right moment we will be shown the truth. Yes, Krishna will come and will reveal the truth. Let us do our search within ourself.